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tem is at times capable of withstanding. A photograph of the injured head was taken one year after the accident and deposited in the Army Medical Museum, Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia, and it was copied into Ashhurst's admira- ble book on " The Principles and Practice of Surgery," Phil- adelphia, 1882; "Cutaneous Eruption following the Admin- istration of Sulphate of Quinia," The Medical Record, 1877; "The Significance of Bacteria in the Urine," Ibid., 1877; "Ligation of the Common Femoral Artery for Diffuse An- eurism involving the whole Thigh, the Sac being at the origin of the Profunda -Recovery," etc. He has also read papers on various scientific subjects before differ- ent societies. While Doctor Slocum has done (as all phy- sicians and surgeons of much practice must do) his full share for the worthy poor and the ne'er-do-wells, he has also succeeded, by untiring industry and good management, in accumulating a competence. Soon after the organization of the Defiance National Bank, in 1872, he became one of its stockholders, and in 1875 was elected director. At the or- ganization of the Defiance Savings' Bank, in 1876, he was one of the largest subscribers to its stock, and since its change to the Merchants' National Bank, in 1881, he has in- creased his interest therein, and is now a leading stockholder and director in both these institutions. He is also interested in the Defiance Machine Works, and owns real estate in Ohio and other States. He was made a Master Mason at Northampton, New York, near his native place, in 1865; a Royal Arch Mason at Albion, Michigan, in 1866; and a Knight Templar at Lima, Ohio, in 1875. He has a mem- bership with the various Masonic bodies at Defiance, and is also a member of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite bodies at Toledo. He has been a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church a number of years. He remains unmarried.
ANDERSON, CHARLES, having resigned his commis- sion as colonel of the 93d Ohio volunteer infantry, after his almost miraculous escape from death at the battle of Stone River, where he was severely wounded, was put in nomina- tion as lieutenant-governor on the ticket in 1863 with John Brough for governor, and elected. The death of the latter transferred Colonel Anderson to the office of governor of Ohio in August, 1865. He was born June Ist, 1814, at the residence of his father, called Soldier's Retreat, or Fort Nel- Son, near the Falls of the Ohio, and which locality is about nine miles from the city of Louisville, Ky. His father, Colo- nel Richard Clough Anderson, a gentleman of high charac- ter, who was an aid-de-camp to Lafayette, removed to Soldiers' Retreat from Virginia in 1783, and there, in the capacity of Surveyor-general of the Virginia Military Land Grant, made his residence, three years before Kentucky was recognized as a Territory. His mother was a relative of Chief-justice Mar- shall, and his eldest brother, Richard C. Anderson, represented his district in Congress, was the first United States minister to the republic of Columbia, and Commissioner in the Con- gress at Panama. Robert Anderson, another brother of our subject, was the Major Anderson commanding Fort Sumter in April, 1861. Educated in a liberal manner, Charles An- derson graduated from Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, in 1833, and even at this early period of his life he had become, in the circles in which he was best known, distinguished for his national feelings of patriotism. Having been disap- pointed in the consummation of his earnest desire to become a farmer near St. Louis, he began the study of law in Louisville
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in his twentieth year in the office of Pirtle & Anderson, and in 1835 was admitted to practice. He then went to Dayton, and September 16th married Miss Eliza J. Brown, a young lady of that place. He remained a resident of Dayton, varying his professional engagements by working a farm during the following ten years, having in that time been elected prosecuting attorney of the county, and in 1844 elected to the State Senate. His vote in this body in favor of the bill to give to the colored men the privilege of tes- tifying in court caused him the enmity of all the pro-slavery element that existed among his constituency, but of this. he took no notice,-his high conscientiousness and innate love of freedom for the whole human race supporting him in the act, the passage of which he was proud to have se- cured. He resolved that at the close of his term he would recuperate his health by a protracted sea voyage and in this he consequently engaged. . Descending to New Or- leans he took a vessel for Havana, and there took passage on a vessel bound for Barcelona, via the Azores. Arriving at Barcelona, amid the excitement of the arrival in that city of the then young queen, Isabella, of Spain, he traversed that country, crossed the Pyrennees into France, descended the Rhone from Avignon to Marseilles, and after spending a couple of weeks in that historic city, he took passage for Genoa, thence to Leghorn, and, in the course of the following six months, had visited all the points of attraction in southern Europe, and from Constantinople navigated the Black Sea and down the Danube until he landed at Vienna. From there he visited the famous springs of Gräfenberg, the seat of the water-cure treatment in Austrian Silesia, and with much advantage to his health, and returned by the way of Paris and Liverpool. Arriving in Cincinnati he entered into a law partnership with Rufus King, Esq., and for eleven years practiced his profession. Then, his original love of farming still influencing his life, he went to Texas in 1859, and found the people greatly excited on account of the po- litical condition of the country. Demagogues had advocated dissolution of the Union there as elsewhere, the establish- ment of a new Southern States government of a monarchical form, its foundation-stone human slavery, and under the pro- tectorate of Great Britain, to whose people their cotton would be exchanged for goods of British manufacture exclusively. He soon saw that this treasonable project had taken deep root among the ignorant masses of the South. There was no term that could be uttered more opprobious than "Abo- litionist," and his well known love of freedom prompting him to boldly address the people he did so at a great gather. ing in San Antonio, November 20th, 1860, advocating in the most stirring and patriotic language the perpetuity of the national Union. Though the recipient, subsequently, of letters threatening his life, he continued to reside in San Antonio, in spite of the forty-day residence act, passed by the Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama, and was therefore confined as a political prisoner in the guard-tent of Maclin's battery of artillery. By the friendly assistance of two persons, who subsequently were maltreated for so assisting him, he escaped to the North, where he was ad- vised to proceed to England, and there lecture, and to this end he was furnished with the best possible testimonials to Hon. Charles Francis Adams, then our able minister to the court of St. James, and also to leading philanthro- pists, members of parliament, and other influential persons, but he soon found that the English people were more
alive to the claims of the blacks than the civilization of the whites, and as, between these two classes, his election was the advantages of his own rather than the African race, he relinquished all idea of lecturing before the British people and at once returned home. It was not reasonable to sup- pose that Mr. Anderson, born in Kentucky, and from infancy. surrounded by and breathing the atmosphere of slavery, could have regarded that institution as it was looked upon by the millions who had not been similarly situated; hence the original idea of the war, to restore the Union as it was, caused him to offer his services to Governor Tod, and he was appointed, we say, colonel of the 93d Ohio regiment, in command of which body of brave men he fought, as we have said, and was seriously wounded in the battle of Stone River. After his term of service as lieutenant-governor and governor of Ohio, he removed to a large iron estate on the Cumberland river, in Lyon county, Kentucky, where he has since resided.
BOWEN, GEORGE, physician, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, August 15th, 1796, and died at Waterford, Wash- ington county, Ohio, May 24th, 1874. While yet a youth, his father, Consider Bowen, removed to Pittsford, Vermont, and here George received the benefit of the earlier New Eng- land district school education and training, which taught him that professional success can be achieved by energy and perseverance, and that prudence, economy, and industry are the highways to wealth. In 1818, having removed to Ohio, he stopped at Waterford, on the Muskingum river, to visit his brother, engaged there in the practice of medicine, who advised him to study and prepare himself to engage in that profession as his life business. He did so, and in due course of time, having graduated, he commenced practice at Water- ford, and continued in partnership with his brother until the latter removed to Rochester, New York, in 1835. Taking up his own and his brother's practice then at Waterford, he re- mained there during the remainder of his life, except a few of the late years of it, exclusively engaged as a physician. From the beginning of his practice he had grown in the es- teem of the public, and by his skill and care in the discharge of his professional duties, Dr. Bowen received a large and influential patronage, which he retained as long as he was able to attend to his professional calls. He married Miss Mary J. Wheeler, of Bridgeport, and who bore him in course of years five children, three sons and two daughters. The latter have become, respectively, the wives of E. E. Case, Jr., of Kansas City, Missouri, and General H. F. Devol, of Waterford, Ohio. The sons are also living and reside, the two eldest at Centreville, Iowa, and the youngest at Zanes- ville, Ohio. Dr. Bowen's political affiliations were originally with the whig party, but, subsequently, upon the organization of the republican party, he affiliated with it. His love of country, and respect for the constitution and laws entered into and moulded every act of his life. During the war of the Rebellion he took the side of the Federal government, from patriotic principles, and supported the same by freely loaning his money when the prospect seemed darkest, and its securities regarded by many with distrust. Not a mem- .ber of any religious denomination, Dr. Bowen was a man of strong religious convictions, and a faithful student of that sacred book upon which the Christian religion is founded. Distinguished for his upright and honorable disposition, few have better merited or received more fully the confidence
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and respect of their fellow-citizens, and few have discharged the duties imposed upon them with greater fidelity. A pub- lic-spirited man, he was the first to propose the organization of a national bank at Beverly, Ohio. In this he succeeded, and was for several years its president. His labors in the alleviation of human suffering endeared him to all he served. He inherited great physical powers, with a mind singularly penetrating and analytical, and his personal appearance was commanding and dignified. He was ever ready to respond to the calls of the poor as freely as to those of the wealthy, and until physically incapable he never failed to meet any professional engagement. His good works will cause him to be long remembered.
LANE, COLONEL P. P., manufacturer, of Cincin- nati, was born in Nassau, near Albany, New York, October 5th, 1821. His parents, David and Melinda Lane, were both natives of Killingworth, Connecticut. The family lived for several years in the State of New York, and in 1828 moved to Ohio, locating in Portage County, which portion of the State was then a comparative wilderness. To reach the site which they intended to make their future home, they were compelled to cut a roadway through a dense forest for sev- eral miles. Being the oldest son, Colonel Lane shared with his father in all the rough and exhausting labors incidental to pioneer life and the placing of heavily timbered land in a condition for cultivation. The tract was to be cleared of thick underbrush, and large timber buildings were to be erected, and the ground-which before, perhaps, had not been trod by civilized man-prepared for the sowing of crops. These rugged experiences necessarily cultivated habits of industry, frugality, and self-reliance. To these traits, thus early acquired, he owes in a great measure the great success that followed his efforts in his subsequent ca- reer. Next to the establishing of pioneer homes came that of schools, and in one of these primeval school-houses did young Lane, during the fall and winter months, obtain a rudimentary education, which in after years he was enabled to complement by close application to study and pursuing a well-selected course of general reading. At the age of twenty-three he left the home he had labored so hard to establish, and went to Pennsylvania, where he engaged in a lumbering enterprise. This fixed his attention for two years, and though he gave to his business all his energy and atten- tion, it proved pecuniarily unprofitable. He next found em- ployment in the machine-shop of Bill & Brothers, at Cuya- hoga Falls, Ohio, which suited his tastes and talents, and in this new avocation he made rapid progress. Subsequently he worked in Massillon and Ashland, Ohio, and in 1848 went to Cincinnati, where, until 1850, he worked as a jour- neyman. In that year he started a small repair shop on Pearl Street, the room occupied being seventeen by forty feet, and employed one journeyman. In the same year he married Miss Sophia B. Bosworth, daughter of Captain Chas. Bosworth, steamboatman, of Marietta. In 1852 he took into partnership with him Mr. Joseph T. Bodley, a former fellow- workman, and the firm became that of Lane & Bodley, which has never been changed up to the present day. Their business grew so rapidly that in 1856 it was found necessary to find larger quarters, and they removed to the building of Rey- nolds, Kite & Tatum, at the corner of John and Water Streets, part of which they rented. In 1859 the latter firm suspended, and Lane & Bodley bought their entire establish-
ment, which necessarily involved them in a large indebted- ness. Shortly afterwards the Rebellion broke out, and de- prived them of a large Southern trade, which proved a severe blow to them. They conducted their affairs with the utmost prudence, and in this way won the confidence of their cred- itors, who granted them extensions, and saved them from im- pending failure. Both Mr. Lane and Mr. Bodley were staunch Unionists, and so far as their individual influence, which was not inconsiderable, was available, they exerted it in supporting the Administration. Upon consultation, it was decided that one of them should take the field, and the other remain at home to carry on the business. Mr. Lane determined to join the army, and within a few days became a member of the Home Guards, with the intention of enter- ing the three months' service. The quota for this service was, however, filled. In a short time came the call for three years' troops, and the Guards were accepted, and went to Camp Dennison, where they were mustered into the 11th Regiment of Ohio Infantry, June, 1861. Mr. Lane was elected captain, and in this capacity went with the regiment to West Virginia, under General J. D. Cox. His company was composed chiefly of mechanics, and they rendered most valuable service as pioneers, in making roads, building bridges, arranging ferries, and in constructing fortifications. In 1862 they were assigned to the Army of the Potomac. Colonel Coleman, who commanded the regiment, was killed at the battle of Antietam, and, at the unanimous request of the surviving officers, Captain Lane was commissioned to the vacant colonelcy. In 1863 the regiment was sent to Nash- ville, where it joined the Army of the Cumberland, February, 1863, and remained with it until its term of service expired. Colonel Lane was a most thorough disciplinarian, and his command soon gained the reputation of being one of the best organized regiments in the field. The men were intel- ligent and soldierly in their bearing and qualities, and in the field or review always elicited the commendation of the division and corps commanders. The gallantry and bravery of their commander stimulated the men, and rendered them conspicuous in action. It was well said of them, "They were never called upon to do duty in the rear except on a retreat." Upon his return from the army Colonel Lane found, to his gratification, that his business had greatly pros- pered under the careful management of his partner, Mr. Bodley, who was a man of excellent qualities in every rela- tion. He died in 1868, and the business then, in its super- vision, devolved principally upon Mr. Lane. The works of this firm are among the largest in the West, and are favora- bly known in almost every section of the country, and in foreign lands. Colonel Lane was one of the organizers of the Cincinnati Board of Trade, and is one of its most active members. The Establishment of the Cincinnati Exposition was largely due to his efforts, and since its inception he has been prominently identified with its management. Mr. Lane went to that city in 1848, with but little money, and with no acquaintances to aid him with their sympathy or more ma- terial support. He has prospered step by step, blending in his business enterprise with energy and honorable dealing, and has the satisfaction of knowing that his position among the leading business men of Cincinnati has been earned by hard labor, enterprise, and excellent character. In politics he has always been a consistent Republican, and in religion a firm believer in Christianity and a valuable member of the Congregational Church.
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JORDAN, JACKSON A., lawyer, Cincinnati. The family on both sides were of English descent. Over a century ago they were settled in the valley of the Susque- hanna and Juniata, in Pennsylvania. They were variously occupied as farmers, merchants, and as members of the lib- eral professions. About the year 1700 Jordan married a Miss Kemble, who left a son, John Jordan. North married, and left a daughter, Sophia. John Jordan and Sophia North mar- ried, and left a son, Amos Jordan. On the mother's side Isaac Smith and Hannah Anderson married and left a son, Robert. John Boggs married Sarah Furnace, and left a daughter, Elizabeth. Robert Smith and Elizabeth Boggs married, and left a daughter, Sarah. Amos Jordan and Sarah Smith married, and at their death left five sons. The subject of this sketch is the third son. They were John Smith Jordan, Robert North Jordan, Jackson A. Jordan, Nathan E. Jordan, and Isaac M. Jordan, all of whom are now living (1884), and are members of the legal profession. One sister alone survives-Mrs. Jane Thomas. There were eleven children, five of whom are dead. Amos Jordan left the Susquehanna Valley in 1835, and settled in Clarke County, Ohio, where he located on a farm. He was a man of great industry and probity of character and intelligence, with strong convictions and simple habits of life. The mother of the subject of this sketch was a woman of re- markably good sense and judgment, and ambitious for the education of her family. Being possessed of more than or- dinary intelligence, she was of great value in directing and inspiring the minds of her family in an educational direc- tion. Jackson A. Jordan was born in the town of New Co- lumbia, Union County, Penn., on the banks of the west branch of the Susquehanna, January 12th, 1826, and came to Ohio with the family in 1835. When twelve years old he became a clerk in Springfield, Ohio, for Edward Swope, with whom he remained for several years, during which time he became acquainted with the transactions of business in a general country store. From that on, until twenty years old, he alternated between work on his father's farm and mer- cantile employment. During these years but little opportu- nity was afforded for schooling. One year inside a school- house would cover it all. But he did not neglect his education on that account. With no incentive except his observation of the advantages that an education gives, he ambitiously availed himself of all his leisure time in its pur- suit, and without the aid of a preceptor became sufficiently proficient to enable him to teach. Commencing at the age of twenty, he taught nine months in the country. During this time he paid close attention to his studies and to general reading, and then for a short period attended an academy in Springfield, and afterward at Dayton, Ohio, and before the age of twenty-two entered the law office of Robert C. Schenck, our late minister to England. Notwithstanding his education was not obtained inside of college walls, it was thorough and covered substantially all the branches taught therein. The proficiency was such as to enable him to enter upon the law study advantageously. Until this period he had sustained himself by his own industry, and during the two succeeding years of his law studies he accepted the gen- erous invitation of his brother-in-law, Mr. John H. Thomas, to make his home in his family. The law firm with which he read was Schenck & Conover. Mr. Schenck was in Congress, so he could receive no attention from him; and Mr. Conover contented himself with simply pointing out the
books to be read. Self-reliance was again necessary. The law-books were diligently read. De Lolme and Stevens on the English Constitution, Story on the Constitution of the United States, Blackstone and Kent on Law Jurisprudence, Story on Equity Jurisprudence, Comyn on Contracts, Ste- phen, Gould, and Chitty on Law Pleading, Story on Equity Pleading, Phillips on Law Evidence, Gresley's Equity Evi- dence, Selwyn's Nisi Prius, Walker's American Law, Swan's Treatise, various books on Practice and Legal Maxims, and the works on Jurisprudence were read several times. No time was lost. His habits were simple and economical. When admitted to the bar, in June, 1849, the principles of law were well grounded. In October, 1849, he opened a law office in Dayton, and became immediately self-sustaining, and all time not occupied in professional employment was devoted to study. The road traveled to this point had been rough, which from the outset did not look smooth. By the end of four years in professional life, success became appar- ent, and confidence in the community was gained. October 13th, 1853, he married Miss Susan E. Gilbert, the beautiful, accomplished, and only daughter of Mr. Lewis W. Gilbert, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio-a woman of rare culture and refine- ment, who greatly added to the stimulus and activity already begun, and also added the charms of society to professional and intellectual progress. For the years which followed, at- tention was paid to his profession, which was attended with success. In 1869, on a recommendation of the bar, Mr. Jordan was appointed, by Governor Hayes, Judge of the Superior Court of Montgomery County, Ohio, to fill a va- cancy. He held this position for about one year, filling the office with great satisfaction to all concerned, and particu- larly to the members of the legal profession, showing a pe- culiar fitness for the office. Judge Jordan had just com- pleted and furnished a beautiful residence in Dayton View, when his wife died suddenly, in June, 1870, leaving two children-Homer, aged eleven, and Susan, aged seven. Mrs. Jordan's life had been one of decided influence in Dayton society. For culture, general intelligence, general reading, music, and good taste she was unsurpassed by her large circle of friends. In October, 1870, Judge Jordan was a candidate for the Superior Judgeship, but, owing to party lines, he was defeated. He then resumed the law practice. For three years his little family were scattered, and in 1873 he married Miss Agnes H. Gill, the daughter of Mr. John L. Gill, of Columbus, Ohio. This brought the family together again. This marriage was very fortunate in the peculiar fitness of his wife for this new relation. She had been finely educated, of high social standing, familiar with society, a woman of rare practical good sense and judgment, and well calculated to exert a good family and social influence. There are now four children by this marriage-John Gill, Allan North, William Bradford, and Mary. In 1876 Judge Jordan removed to Cincinnati, and commenced the law practice, where his brothers, Isaac and Nathan, had already 'located. In 1883, when his brother Isaac was elected to Congress, the three brothers formed a partnership. The first well-defined political stand of Judge Jordan was in 1860, when he sup- ported Stephen A. Douglas for President in speeches made in various parts of the State. When Fort Sumter was fired upon he knew no politics, but became an ardent supporter of all the measures of the Government for the suppression of the Rebellion, and identified himself with the Republican party, claiming that, against an organized rebellion to destroy
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